I’ll try to be more constructive. Here’s how I make mine: Tuna in oil plus a couple of dollops of real mayo. Add finely chopped onions and chopped celery. Spread mustard on a nice roll, add slices of tomato and lettuce. Voila.

I like to make tuna salad with curry powder mixed into the mayo. If you want to eat it as a salad, i.e. over lettuce, you can add cut up apples, raisins and/or walnuts andgrapes. In a sandwich, I would probably just add celery and onion along wiht the curry powder and put lettuce and tomato on the bread.

Do realize that you are limited with your tastes here. Your tongue loves fat, no spice will taste like fat enough to compensate. I am of the opinion that life’s too short so I enjoy full fat mayo but rarely eat mayo to the point where a jar lasts me a year.

That said, I am a fan of lemon pepper. It is a really handy spice useful for tons of things, most of all fish. I add a generous amount into my tuna sandwiches. I also dice veggies such as carrots and celery and beets maybe into it, maybe a gherkin if I’m feeling pickle-y. Onion is also good, chives or green onion substitute easily. But only fresh, no onion powder or dehydrated chives, eew.

You say you aren’t great at chopping veggies, well here’s your chance to start getting better! The term to google for videos and info on getting better is “knife skills”. I just saw a book in my local library yesterday about that, and there are plenty of free videos on Youtube about this.

Use those flavored Starkist packages. I like Sweet and Spicy and Hickory Smoked. Sweet and Spicy is good on it’s own, but when I use the smoked, I add grilled red bell peppers and onions, cheese, mayo and sometimes bacon if my arteries are flowing too freely that day.

When I was little, I had a friend whose mom would always chop red grapes in half and mix them into her tuna salad – it sounds weird, but it’s so delicious! I used to trade sandwiches with her all the time…

Another thing you can do to liven up your sandwich is make the tuna as you usually would, and then put a layer of potato chips or pretzels in the sandwich, on top of the tuna. It gives the sandwich a little bit of a crunchy texture, plus a little added salt, which I always like!

You can just put the low fat tuna and low fat mayo on you low fat bread. Then add some salt to that, plus salami, cheese, more salami and some bacon. Add some ketchup and full-fat mayo on top of that, and a slice of normal white bread. Now flip the whole thing over, remove the first two layers (ie up to the second slice of bread) until you reach the salami. Now add some more full-fat mayo, a slice of ham and maybe another slice of cheese. And another slice of white bread. Voila! Enjoy your meal.

Alternatively you could just throw away all the ingredients you just mentioned and order pizza instead.

This is great. I had a tuna melt last night, and it was Shag-nasty (as my undergrad advisor used to say). I don’t know how I could have gotten a tuna sandwich wrong, but I sure did. Great recipes, all!

Here’s what I would do: add some salt, pepper and freshly-squeezed lemon juice to the tuna, then stir in some Extra Virgin Olive Oil (from any reasonably good supermarket) and then throw in a tablespoon or so of non-pareil capers with a little bit of their juice. Skip the crummy mayo, and drain the tuna real well first.

I didn’t drain the water out. I just poured it out. Seasoned it with 5 different peppercorns, garlic powder and onion powder and a heaping tablespoon of low fat mayo. Added in dried cranberries and put it on toasted potato bread. Thanks

@PandoraBoxx I used to bake the crustless bread in muffin pans with cheese only as a snack for my kids. We called them “cheese snacks,” appropriately enough, and we all loved them. The tuna salad addition is a great idea.

I always use salad cream for tuna it gives it a better flavour than mayo , it also boosts well for those who can’t have eggs .
I thought salad cream would be widely available in US cause , wasn’t it an German / American who invented the stuff Mr Heinz And the headquarters are in the states